Insense Ultramarine

Mostly cool and green, like herbs crushed between your fingers. Underneath that, the general smell of flowers, without leaning sharp or sweet.

It opens on black currant, watermelon and galbanum, moves through iris, magnolia and mint, and settles on tobacco, vetiver and cedar.

• black currant: tart purple fruit with a green, faintly sulphurous edge. Often labelled cassis
• galbanum: intensely green resin, bitter and sappy, like a snapped plant stem

It lasts well and sits close to the skin after the first hour.

Built from the note listing and the measured performance figures. We have not smelled this one.